Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, your week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 400 and 78.

This week, I've got a review of my recent cruise on Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas.

It was a eight-night cruise to the Southern Caribbean.

I want to share with you the things that really stood out about this cruise, and what about

Odyssey of the Seas really

endeared me here we go so as i mentioned we were on royal grimace odyssey of the seas for an

eight night cruise over thanksgiving and odyssey of the seas you know it's kind of interesting because

it's a brand new cruise ship came out late 2021 and it really got overshadowed very quickly by Wonder of the Seas

because Wonder came out just a few months later on, right? And usually when new cruise ships come out,

there's usually some sort of a gap, right? There's usually at least, gosh, a year. I mean,

maybe less than a year, but even if it's less than a year, we're talking like eight or nine

months at the, you know, at the minimum.

So there's usually enough time for the new ship to get all the attention. Don't forget,

Real Caribbean tends to market its new ships as whatever's the latest and greatest. And it gives

a lot of focus on that before moving on to something else. It's also why, you know, Real

Kriven doesn't spend a lot of time talking about maybe, you know, as an example, utopia of the

Seas, as much as Icon, because Icon is coming out before Utopia. You kind of get the idea.

Anyway, all that being said is that Odyssey came out, and it kind of, you know, it got a lot of attention

at the time, but I feel like here in 2022, I'm not sure that it gets nearly as much attention as wonder of the seas does, and now you

got an icon coming out, and, you know, it got a little loss in the shuffle a little bit.

But when we went on Odyssey last time, I had gone on Odyssey, I believe, two times prior to this

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